----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Taylor" <rtaylor(a)ndsuext.nodak.edu> To: <phc-club(a)yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 6:36 AM Subject: [phc-club] Cokato Revisited A few final thoughts on Cokato... The annual All Club Campout finished up less than a week ago. I have had the opportunity to attend every one of these events since our first gathering up in Duluth over a decade ago. We have been treated to a wide range of climatic conditions during these camping outings, from oppressive heat to Minnesota thunderstorms. We even have had some excellent weather some years. I would have to say that the weather last week was the worst we have ever experienced at the campout. We have never seen wind and rain like that. On that note, I'd like to commend Mick Moranz and the rest of the MhBA crew for hosting the campout and cooking up a fabulous meal under very trying circumstances. Despite the weather, I think we can all look back in retrospect and agree that we had a lot of (wet) fun. It was unfortunate that some of us were forced to leave the site a little earlier than planned this year but things can only improve in 2003. It doesn't take much to keep homebrewers happy, a few kegs of fresh beer, a few commercial products and a lot of good friends. We had those items and enjoyed them all. I have a slide show of some of the photos I snapped over the weekend in my public folder on the Internet. If you would like to have a look, you can access the file at: http://homepage.mac.com/raytaylor/MacShared/FileSharing7.html Note: This is a large file (8.7 mb) so it will take a long time to capture it with a modem hookup. It is in QuickTime format. If you don't have QuickTime you can download a free copy at: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download For those of you who choose to operate under the Microsoft banner, there is a Windows friendly version of the player at that location too. CHEERS! Ray Ps. In case anyone doubts that we actually did have fun last weekend.... I did see a lot of smiling faces as we struggled to wrestle our tarp roof from the driving wind and rain!